6 - Agrippa, Camillo. Treatise on the Science of Arms. And a Dialogue on the Subject. Venice, Pinargenti, 1568. The Renaissance masterpiece that transformed fencing into a science

Agrippa, Camillo. Treatise on the Science of Arms. And a Dialogue on the Subject. Venice, Pinargenti, 1568. The Renaissance masterpiece that transformed fencing into a science Agrippa, Camillo. Treatise on the Science of Arms. And a Dialogue on the Subject. Venice, Pinargenti, 1568. Quarto (215 x 160 mm); [8], 111, [1] pages. Title page with a portrait of the author within an elaborate cartouche featuring scenes of military triumph, 26 engraved illustrations, including 13 full-page and 9 double-page, decorated woodcut initials (annotations and drawings by various historical hands; pages S2 and 3 of the Dialogue are missing; one section is detached; some stains.) Early 20th-century half-parchment binding with marbled paper corners, smooth spine with red and green labels for the title and date. According to Dennis Rhodes (Silent Printers: Anonymous Printing at Venice in the Sixteenth Century, London, 1995), Pinargenti was not a printer, and the work was actually printed by Bolognino Zaltieri. The plates for this edition were re-engraved by Giulio Fontana because the original matrices had become excessively worn. The Renaissance masterpiece that transformed fencing into a science